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Congratulations and thanks to all who entered.

as always... hard to choose...

Hats off to all who entered

I'm having some trouble deciding, too.
What is the criteria - best story? best animation?

Also, any suggestions on how to best view the 3d one? If I'm too close or I enlarge the playback too much, I lose the 3d effect and instead get double images.

There is no criteria really. It comes down to the ones that you like the best. I viewed the 3d one without glasses and just sat back a little from my monitor and it was fine with me.

If you can, find a pair of the glasses (Spencer Gifts maybe). It's worth it.

For years a pair was included with each AM update, a lot of you should have a pair stashed somewhere.

Does Spencer's sell a decent plastic pair, or only just the paper ones?

Somehow I always manage to step on the paper ones. :-)

I should have said that I had the problems while using the glasses.

I got it to work better with a large playback while sitting some distance back from the computer. Some of the 3D looks great, especially in the last sequence running through the cave. But other parts, mostly sections of the street sequences, didn't come out as well for my eyes. Shaggy is semi-transparent in some of the scenes.

Does anyone mind if I post a cross-eye version for those who don't have red-blue glasses on hand?



I'm presuming you are using glasses.

Ghosting is a reality of the red-blue process. If it were up to me I'd make learning to view cross-eye stereo a requirement for high school graduation. Then everyone could see stereo in full color and without extra glasses.

I've found that people who will view stereo pairs that way are even rarer than people who haven't lost their red-blue 3D glasses.

That's the chance you take with stereoscopic.

Great idea!

Cross-eye version of #3 in this post

WoW! looks very cool robcat, didnt take me long to figure it out and focus at all. I used to do the find and animal in all the chaos magazines where you would see a shape pop out from nowhere using the same technique. Its quite cool, I think i might experiment with the Stereoscopic viewing myself with some of my stuff =D.

Also well done to the other guys for their entries shame there werent anymore submissions. Time... I almost didnt enter due to it, and even then i only ended up submitting as much as i could by litteraly working on it to the last second of the deadline. =D

Thanks for the post robcat.

Good Luck Have Fun...

Is there a requirement for originality?

The big fight scene of Entry 1 looks like a frame-by-frame copy of this:
http://www.stickpage.com/xiao3play.shtml

I'm curious if the A:M version was traced with the old-time rotoscope technique.

thanks for posting that. I think I'm too old for the technique but I'll give it a shot. I have a friend who can't see in 3D in the real world. It's a problem with his eyes... some affliction when he was a little kid. I wonder if that technique could work for him... and maybe even get his eyes trained to work better together for his vision in general.

I was at a stereoscopic screening of "Duck Dodger in the 3rd Dimension" and the presenter said that about 7% of the population can't see 3D no matter how it is presented, real life or otherwise. It's not a matter of getting the images to the proper eyes (that's what special glasses or cross-eye viewing is about)... their brains just don't process it to understand depth. I think that explains a lot of the messed up cars you see driving around.

the poorer my eyesight gets, the easier crosseye viewing gets!

thanks, rc!
-jon

is it me our in the 2nd movie is it fuzzy? For the first few seconds its ok then the rest the sound goes and the video stops.

They all seem to play just fine. Try down downloading it and looking at them in the QT player.